{"id":3048,"date":"2010-09-29T23:16:28","date_gmt":"2010-09-30T04:16:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.playfighting.ca\/?p=3048"},"modified":"2010-09-29T23:16:28","modified_gmt":"2010-09-30T04:16:28","slug":"the-best-in-a-narrow-category","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/playfighting.ca\/fight-like-a-gentleman\/bartitsu-blog\/the-best-in-a-narrow-category\/","title":{"rendered":"The Best (in a narrow category)"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Georgia Straight, a Vancouver weekly newspaper has released their annual Best of Vancouver issue. To my great surprise, we had a featured photo in the paper and online.<\/p>\n

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Best Victorian art of self-defence<\/strong>
\nWhat could be better suited to life in Vancouver than warding off attackers with an umbrella? Get your Sherlock Holmes on with a four-hour introduction to Bartitsu, the gentlemanly art of kicking arse, first practised in Victorian England by cane-wielding chaps but perfectly adaptable to wet-weather-ready Vancouverites. The next Umbrella Self Defense workshop (\u201cfend off ruffians and rapscallions\u201d) runs Saturday (September 25) at Academie Duello (412 West Hastings Street). Call 604-568-9907 to register and get info on upcoming classes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Here’s the photo gallery from the Straight.com<\/a><\/p>\n

By the way, our next Umbrella Self-Defence workshop will be in November, 2010. See the Academie Duello<\/a> site for details. We also have an ongoing Bartitsu class that I teach on Saturdays 3pm-5pm which includes these skills and more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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